28/05/2009
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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED 28TH MAY 2009
Young People in Tallaght and Clondalkin participate in City Centre Art Exhibition
Artist Sinead Curran asked young people from Tallaght Young Filmmakers and from a CPLN-based film group in Clondalkin to participate in a film piece for exhibition in Latent Connections, an exhibition at Pallas Contemporary Projects in Dublin City Centre. The young people were the feature participants in a piece that comments on the future of young people facing the current economic situation.
Sinead Curran was extremely impressed with the professionalism of the young people who participated in her piece. On Wednesday, May 20th Tallaght Young Filmmakers, a group supported and funded by South Dublin County Council, and a group of young people working in film with CPLN, met in Clondalkin village to work with Sinead Curran. The video piece created with the young people will be exhibited at the Pallas Contemporary Projects from the 3rd to the 6th of June 2009.
Latent Connections" is an exhibition of work by three artists, Sinad Curran, Elaine Hurley and Suzannah Vaughan, addressing the tensions between possibility and non action, presentedby means of light, video and temporary fragile structures.
The Artists in this exhibition reconstruct and re-present social situations and unrealised spaces as a means of re-addressing these concerns or making visible that which has become invisible through a lack of implementation, an impossibility or an over-familiarity. The Artists' practices are brought together by addressing issues around potential possibilities and the social.
In Elaine Hurleys video installation Bind the repetitive physical action is a metaphor for a psychological power struggle. It is a social comment on the traditional representation of woman as object and references the role of the female in Irish Society. Sinad Currans video work similarly engages social concerns yet takes as its basis, questions of idealism in relation to community. Suzannah Vaughans interests lie in the point where imagined architectural spaces come into existence; a point of endless possibilities. By attempting to temporarily realise these idealised spaces she consequently and repeatedly invokes questions of possibility and impossibility. The artists reference an irresolvable possibility; that which issimultaneouslyand cyclically past, present and future
In 2005Elaine Hurley received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from GMIT. She then went on to obtain a Higher Diploma from LIT andin early 2009 she was awardedan MA in Visual Arts Practices from IADT. Recent exhibitions include; Live@Number 8, Galway and White Noise, Studio Six, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. Earlier this year she was selected to exhibit at the SC gallery as part of Test! 9+10 in Zagreb. She has also been invited to present her recent collaborative, video installation and performance piece Me Seeing You later this year at the Busan International Festival in Korea and has been selected by curator Cecilia Moore to exhibit in the travelling exhibition, My Space in June.
Sinad Curran is a moving image artist and student on the MA in Visual Arts Practices, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. She completed a BA in Fine Art at Crawford College of Art, Cork and a BA in Visual Arts Practices, IADT. She has received numerous awards, including South Dublin County Council Bursary and Ealan Na Gaeltachta bursary. Her work has been exhibited at Broadstone XL, TBGS 6, The Concourse, Dun Laoghaire, Greyfriars Gallery, Waterford and more recently at SC Gallery, Zagreb as part of Test!9+10.
After graduating from the NCAD Suzannah Vaughan completed an MA in Visual Arts Practices in IADT. In 2007 her work was selected for Open ev+a 2007, A Sense of Place, Curated by Klaus Ottmann and was awarded the Ev+a '07 Belltable One Person Exhibition Award. In 2008 she was one of two emerging artists invited to Represent Ireland in European Glass Context 2008 in Bornholm, Denmark. Earlier this year she was awarded the Glass Art society Emerging Artist Lecture Award and will be presenting her work at this years GAS Conference in Corning, New York in June 2009.
This is an artist initiated project, as part of the independent summer programme of exhibitions at Pallas Contemporary Projects.
Listings Information:
Latent Connections
by Sinad Curran, Elaine Hurley, Suzannah Vaughan
at Pallas Contemporary Projects
Opening reception: 6pm 8pm Wednesday, 3rd June 2009
Exhibition continues: 4th 6th June
Venue: Pallas Contemporary Projects - 111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7
Days: Thursday Saturday, 12 - 6pm
www.pallasprojects.org | info@pallasprojects.org
sineadcurran@gmail.com | hurley.e@gmail.com | suzannah.vaughan@gmail.com
Pallas is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.
Victoria Durrer
Youth Arts Coordinator
Arts Office, Community Department
South Dublin County Council
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